Edit: What do you judge them for?
Any kind of religious paraphernalia
Maga hat
Crosses.
99% chance it’s performative.
Globally? American flag
Cybertruck owners. That is all.
Cybersecurity people with iphones. Not strictly judging them but it is a grim reminder that even the “professionals” barely understand the technological privacy dystopia we live in.
Perhaps they do, just don’t have enough energy to care about it in private life anymore and just go for convenience like the majority.
I’m amazed nobody has mentioned a confederate flag (or confederate anything) yet. My first assumption would be that they’re racist and proud of it.
At this point that falls in line with MAGA gear to me, which lots of people have mentioned
Good point. At the risk of making it sound cool, I’ll say that confederate flags are the OG MAGA gear.
Beats headphones.
“Oh yeah those look cool. Did you want something that sounds good though?”
I used to work retail and was helping a college aged guy pick out some new headphones. He was deciding between some Beats and some Bose headphones. I literally asked him “do you want something that sounds good or looks good” and was amazed he actually said “looks good”. So I reluctantly sold him the Beats.
Sometimes the headphones are just a public statement of “Don’t talk to me please.”, and the music is just secondary. In that case, the looks may win.
Hah, I appreciate the honesty though 😂
One of those big trucks but they are immaculate, clean, scuff free. So not used for they are meant for: working.
Now they are just taking up space and being dangerous to the public just to try and help prop up someone’s ego.
Had a lot of those come through when I worked at Lowe’s. Many were indeed working trucks, but they were towing monster loads, not throwing shit in the back.
I call those brodozers, and I hate those drivers. I’ve damned near gotten hit by them so many times cuz they can’t see shit over their hood
Do you judge people driving clean, scuff free vans as well or only truck drivers?
I use my truck for work but other than having a roof rack you probably wouldn’t be able to tell it’s a work truck from the outside. When it gets dirty, I wash it, and when it gets dents or scratches I fix them. I don’t want it to look like a beater.
A 4x4 truck with its big wheels and high ground clearance are features that allow the truck to move off-road. These features have the unfortunate side effect of making them dangerous to other road users, and very uneconomical / environmentally unfriendly. They also take up a lot of space.
Work vans are and most cars are capable of driving on a building site or track.
Hood height, engine size, and the physical exterior dimensions of many vans are similar to those of pickup trucks. When used for work, it often just comes down to personal preference. One key difference is towing capacity - most vans are limited to around 750 kg, whereas trucks typically offer much more. Mine can tow up to 3000 kg.
Edit: Also, rear visibility in a van is much worse due to the enclosed cargo area. With a truck, you pretty much have 360-degree visibility.
most vans are limited to around 750 kg, whereas trucks typically offer much more. Mine can tow up to 3000 kg.
Yeah that’s bullshit. Vans that can do the max of 3500kg are common as fuck. You probably looked at the wrong spec. 750kg is the max for a trailer without brakes, regardless of type of car. There are usually two numbers on the spec sheet, one for max towing weight for unbraked trailers and one for braked trailers.
True, my bad. Many of the most commonly used vans here can tow 2500kg as long as the trailer has brakes. Anything more than that is rare though. Even many of the other mid-size pickups can’t tow 3000kg.
It may depend on local laws. Here the total weight of the combination (car + trailer) with a B+E driving license is 7000Kg, and 3500Kg for a car. That means you can have a van with 3500Kg capacity plus a 3500Kg trailer. So naturally there are vans that are built to match the max spec.
Snapchat.
Brand clothing plastered with logos of the brand.
I immediately know you’re vacuous and live your life for the image you have for others instead of focusing on yourself.
Same, sort of. For me it varies, some is supposed to be a status symbol and that I find lame.
But some are signals about a person; Bass Pro, fisherman; Backwoods, down to smoke; Burton, snowboarder; Venture, skateboarder; etc. These I see more as a band shirt, like “hey I like that thing/band too, wanna hang out?” These I actually like, they can be informative.
And some are just free shirts from work itself, vendors to your work, events, etc. Maybe they just got off and are still in “uniform” (if you can call a company t-shirt a uniform lmao), maybe their job sells a lot of Kawasaki and they sent shirts to the dealership they work at, this falls more into the informative category and indicate possible hobbies. Same with the event shirts, it’s more about a memory of the event, it indicates possible hobbies like running or biking, and hell a free shirt is a free shirt.
Hell even the status symbol shirts, I guess do the same thing in signaling something about a person, but imo it signals that
you’re vacuous and live your life for the image you have for others instead of focusing on yourself.
My wife’s Filipino and that’s just their style, like they’re stuck in the 80s.
A tesla
Always remember
the car, the coil or the autistic savant?
Any kind of of bumper sticker collection on the trunk(boot) lid.
One sticker with a snarky or clever saying is fine, but I do instantly judge anyone with a collage as a tacky person with poor taste and no sense of boundaries.
It matters not if I tend to agree with the advertised messages, it’s just a huge red flag to me.
I also think a collage of bumper stickers looks tacky. I wouldn’t condemn it in such strong terms as you used, however.
Rolex. Evincing pathological narcissism or psychopathy.
MAGA shit, thin blue line, black US flag, etc…
In case a civil war actually happens, it’s good to know the enemy.
All of that plus any “Punisher” logo on clothing or vehicles.
Especially that punisher skull motif with the Trump hair. That takes the cringe to a new level.
I thought you were making this up, but no, we’re really exploring new frontiers of cringe
The punisher would shoot them for that and not look back
I had to do a search. I’m sorry I did.
So far, I’ve only seen one of those. They’re so stupid looking that if it had been by itself, I wouldn’t have been able to tell if it was meant as a joke. They also had one of those “thin blue line” American flag stickers, though, so that cleared it right up.
I’m about to get a LGBT punisher logo for my car. 🤣
That fits with his ideologies far better than the thin blue line skull nonsense.
100%. I’ve recently added the “Grunt Style” tshirts to my red flag catalog.
What’s wrong with a black US flag? It’s a discrete way to display the flag no?
I’m Canadian, they use a black flag up here too. I don’t know or care about proper flag usage, I just know if I see a black Canadian flag on someone’s car or clothing that they:
- hate the left
- own a gun
- want “freedom”
- don’t care about the environment
- possibly racist?
It’s against flag code and is considered not a proper flag.
At this point in my life I couldn’t care less about the flag code. I just like to be discrete. But as people have pointed out, there are meanings that people are already using it for of which I fundamentally disagree with so….
Good thing I never got around to it
It’s not really a us flag once you change it.
It supposedly means that “no quarter will be given”.
Because I’m surely not the only one going ‘why would I want change, I paid with plastic’: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_quarter
Well, shit. Didn’t know that thanks
Start asking for bills then. No point in asking for dimes or nickels.
